Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Winnipeg Humane Society says it has its hands full dealing with a massive influx of animals after a historic seizure by the province. The WHS said Tuesday that the Office of the Provincial Veterinarian-Animal Welfare recently removed more than 130 dogs from a home north of…
Manny Grosse, 73, has lived his whole life in Halifax, most of it in public housing. So have eight of his 10 siblings who, like Grosse, moved into public housing and started families there. It didn’t begin that way. Grosse was baby No. 7 when his parents, Henry and Irene Grouse, were renting on Jacob…
Three years ago in Tokyo, Canadian paddlers Laurence Vincent Lapointe and Katie Vincent stormed back from fifth place in the final 250 metres of the C-2 500m canoe sprint, pushing their way to an Olympic bronze medal. It was the first time the Olympics featured women’s canoe sprint events after years of fighting for women…
With crime on the rise, many people are wondering how to defend themselves. But the laws around self-defence are complicated. Criminal defence lawyer Linh Pham says self-defence claims have three elements. “The first is the person has to have a reasonable grounds to fear that they’re getting assaulted or that they’re under threat,” Pham said….
A family has been forced to find a new home after the house they rented in Winnipeg was completely gutted in a fire that they say was caused by an electronic bike. Catherine Beardy says she, her five young children and two of her brothers had to flee the two-storey house on Toronto Street where she…
Four-time Olympian Damian Warner says withdrawing from the Olympic men’s decathlon competition in Paris was like a “worst nightmare come true.” The 34-year-old from London, Ont., fell out of contention in the decathlon’s third-to-last event on Saturday when he failed to clear the bar on any of his three attempts in the pole vault. Warner…
RPS is asking anyone with information or surveillance cam footage to reach out to police 306-777-6500 or Regina Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). Source link
When West Hants resident Drew Kaulback wanted to pay his Nova Scotia Power bill, he did what most people do: he searched for the phone number online. A toll-free number popped up as the first result and he called it. The number was not, in fact, the utility but instead a sponsored link for an elaborate scam…
Remco Evenepoel became the first rider to sweep the Olympic men’s road race and time trial on Saturday, relentlessly attacking over three climbs of Montmartre and building such a lead on the run-in to the finish at the Pont d’Iena that the Belgian rider was able to overcome a mechanical problem in the final kilometres….
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — A jury returned a verdict of not guilty late Friday for two men accused of conspiring to kill RCMP officers at the border blockade at Coutts, Alta. But Anthony Olienick and Chris Carbert were both convicted on other charges of mischief and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose. Olienick was…
